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No. 248,281. Patented Oct. 18,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

LEWIS S. BORTREE, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,281, dated October 18, 1881. Application ined May 17,1581. (Model.)

conformation of bust; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction of parts and their combination, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the accompany ing drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which my improved corset is shown in perspective, A rep resents the rear half of the side section, and B the front half of the same, the piece A being secured to the back pieces of the corset, and the piece B to the front section of the corset, in the usual manner.

The adjoining edges of the pieces A B are provided with a series of eyelets,a, placed near together for the purpose of securing such ed ges as firmly together by lacing as they would beit' joined together by a seam. The upper portion of the edges is provided with another series of eyelets, b, at farther distances apart, by

means of which and a suitable and separate lacing the upper end ofthe corset may be adjusted to greater or lesser busts.

It will be noticed that the series of eyelets a in the piece A extend below the lacing, as shown, and the eyelets a in the pieceB extend above the lacing, as shown. The object of this is toallow the back of the corset to be adj usted to a higher or lower plane with relation tothe mediately over the center and rear portion of the hip-joint, and the two pieces AB are adj ustably secured together by means of an adjusting strap, C. The piece A is vertically boned from top to bottom in the usual way, and the piece B is similarly boned from top to bottom, each bone, however, being longer than the adjacent one in the series, and with their lower ends terminating upon the curved bottom of this portion of the corset, where they are secured in any suitable manner.

It will be found that in a corset of this construction a greater variety of forms may be tted with the same size corset than with any of the known constructions, as the back and front may be vertically adjusted with relation to each other, while at the same time the bot tom and top may be readily adjusted to varying sizes of busts and hips.

What I claim as my invention is- In a corset, the separate side pieces, A B, the piece B being cut away at its lower end to leave an opening between the two pieces, in combination with a strap for adjusting the size ofthe opening between the pieces at the lower end, and separate means of adjustin g said pieces above the strap, substantially as described.

LEWIS S. BORTREE.

`Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, A. BARTHEL. 

